Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, Richardson's Woodfall Productions had to negotiate individual contracts amounting to $35,800 with each of 749 villagers who owned portions of the 3,000 acres in the valley. Then, since the valley floor was marshy, the company had to hire the Turkish National Waterworks to drain it at a cost of $40,000. And so it went, through unseasonable cold spells and rainstorms that flattened tents and scuttled beach scenes on the Black Sea. Then, two weeks ago, just when the cast thought they had survived the worst, the country was rocked...
...mark. The welcome rebound left the industry only 9.2% behind its record 1966 sales pace during the first half of this year, even with the disastrous first quarter, when new-car purchases slumped more than 20%. The acceleration caught Detroit by surprise, with production schedules throttled down. The resulting drain on stocks in the hands of dealers here and there created shortages of such popular models as Chevrolet Camaros, Mercury Cougars and Plymouth Furys...
...together. In so doing, the FCC rejected the Antitrust Division's contentions that the merger might (1) restrain competition, (2) subject ABC's public affairs programming to unusual pressures from ITT's far-flung business interests, and (3) enable ITT to drain the network of capital that otherwise might go into broadcasting. Such fears, concluded the commission majority, "are too speculative or slight to weigh heavily in the balance...
...half their operating budgets from federal funds-argue that the research is only a service to Government, and that the grants do not pay the full costs of maintaining the added facilities. The American Council on Education's John F. Morse contends that "most federal programs involve a drain on, rather than a strengthening of institutional resources...
Peering dimly into the future of the Middle East, CBS News Analyst Eric Sevareid seemed to see a mirror image of what was actually happening. "Many years of diplomacy and spending," he mourned, "were going down the drain," since Russia would replace the U.S. as the dominant influence in the Middle East. NBC's David Brinkley doubted that Russia would do so well. "The U.S.," he said, "gave Israel no help, which it did not need, and the Russians gave the Arab countries no help, which they did need...